Act by Apr 14 to Save U.S. Deep Water Corals

**************************************** April 6, 2004 ** R E E F D I S P A T C H * * ____________________________________** ** Shall American Deep Coral Reefs ** Continue to be Crushed Into Rubble? ** ** You Have Until April 14th ** to Just Say NO! ** ** Find Out All About it at ** http://www.reefguardian.org ****************************************

You and I have until April 14th to let U.S. federal regulators know thatwe want them to put a halt to the wanton trawling destruction ofAmerica's deep coral reefs. That's why I am writing to ask you to pleasego to the ReefGuardian website (http://www.reefguardian.org) beforeApril 14th. So you can learn more about this trawling devastation. Andso you can access an email petition you can send to help push U.S. fedsinto doing the right thing.

And rest assured -- the trawling smashing of our deep coral reefs won'tstop by itself. There's just too much money to be made by the trawling. So there's lots of pressure from the trawlers to have the U.S.government leave things as they are. You and I cannot let thathappen... or these coral wonderlands may very well disappear altogetherbefore we even get a chance to study and know them. We need to bandtogether NOW to show government decision-makers that these wonders ofnature may be out of sight, but they are not to be left out of mind.

So, please, go to our website before April 14th -- before the publiccomment period ends on a regulatory proposal to end the trawlingdestruction. Access and read the Deep Sea Coral campaign update you'llfind at the upper left of our Home Page (http://www.reefguardian.org). And then go to the Speak Up for Coral Reefs section at the bottom of ourHome Page and act on the email petition to Save America's Deep Sea CoralReefs.

This is one battle we have got to win. I know I can count on you to doyour part.